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‘Extra Steps’: Building Strong Pediatric Palliative Referral Partnerships

Hospice News

Sustaining pediatric hospice and palliative care programs involves employing dynamic referral and financial strategies in todays health care landscape. HopeHealth in 2021 began providing inpatient and community-based pediatric palliative and hospice care to infants, children and young adults.

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Leadership Transitions at 4 Hospice Providers

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Hospices coast-to-coast have undergone leadership transitions, including changes in legal executives and a slew of newly appointed CEOs, among other roles in the industry. Texas-based New Day provides home health, hospice, palliative and personal care services across 31 locations in Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and in its home state.

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Value-Based Care a Driver of Palliative Care Investment

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Though home-based care M&A showed signs of life in Q3 2024 in what has otherwise been a relatively quiet year thus far, transaction volume was still down last year, according to a report from M&A advisory firm Mertz Taggart. Julia Frydman, senior medical director at Nashville-based Thyme Care, runs its palliative care wing.

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The Most Significant Palliative Care Research Trends in 2024

Hospice News

Palliative care has been at the forefront of several research efforts in 2024, with findings increasingly pointing to the value proposition of these services when it comes to cost savings and quality. Technology can link us to the home in real time. You may have had the greatest patient experience possible but with very little data.

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Regulators Extend Some Telemedicine Flexibilities, Gauge Telehealth’s ‘New Path Forward’ in Hospice

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The temporary telemedicine rules allowed hospices and other health care providers to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine such as ketamine, cannabis, MDMA and psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin, among other drugs. Fratkin is also a palliative care specialist at Humboldt Center for New Growth.

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New Day Healthcare Acquires Good Samaritan Society’s Hospice Operations

Hospice News

Texas-based New Day Healthcare LLC has announced its acquisition of Good Samaritan Society’s hospice operations in its home state. The transaction includes Good Samaritans hospice assets in El Paso, Texas, expanding New Days existing presence in that market. Hospice utilization rates hovered at 49.1% Scott Herman.

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Under the Radar Challenges for Hospice Nurses

Hospice News

Hospice leaders may have a narrow view around the hidden daily challenges experienced by nurses both at the bedside and operationally. Rising demand and widespread staffing shortages have given way to a difficult state of the hospice nursing workforce. You can always go somewhere else and make more money. An estimated 82.13